Sökning: "Historical sociolinguistics"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 13 uppsatser innehållade orden Historical sociolinguistics.
1. IŻ SWÓJ JĘZYK MAJĄ! An exploration of the computational methods for identifying language variation in Polish
Master-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet / Institutionen för filosofi, lingvistik och vetenskapsteoriSammanfattning : Computational approaches to language variation continue to contribute in a relevant way to various fields, including Natural Language Processing (NLP) and linguistics. Being able to accommodate variation within natural language increases the robustness of NLP models and their usefulness in real-life applications; simultaneously, detecting and describing variation and trends that govern it is one of the main goals of sociolinguistics and historical linguistics, meaning that some of the advances in NLP can contribute to these fields as well. LÄS MER
2. Prudes versus sluts : An analysis of how attitudes are expressed through colloquial terminology
Kandidat-uppsats, Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)Sammanfattning : This paper performs a corpus-based critical discourse analysis on the terms“vamp”, “slut”, “prude” and “spinster” and how they are used in context fromthe 1920s to the 2000s. They were categorized according to what attitudeswere connected to them, positive, neutral and negative. LÄS MER
3. ”¡PANDA DE VAGOS!” Un análisis sobre los estereotipos andaluces en películas españolas
Kandidat-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturerSammanfattning : Andalusia, in spite of its size and historical importance, is the subject of a great many persistent and strikingly negative stereotypes, some of which have persisted for hundreds of years. By looking at the historical background of the region, as well as the science behind stereotypes, we investigate what these stereotypes are, why they’re so prominent, and how they are expressed and why in Ocho apellidos vascos and Ocho apellidos catalanes, two modern Spanish comedy movies which play heavily on the regional stereotypes and cultural differences in Spain with a typical Andalusian man as their protagonist. LÄS MER
4. “[E]en strict offensive och defensive alliance” and “the danger this King and the 2 Queens were in” : News Reporting in Early Modern Swedish and English Diplomatic Correspondence
Master-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionenSammanfattning : The study of early cross-linguistic diplomatic epistolography was first introduced in Brownlees' (2012) comparative study of Italian and English personal newsletters. Given the field’s young age and the strong need for both further research and the retrieving of new, untranscribed and unanalysed data, the present study set out to help move this field forward by examining, at both a textual superstructure and semantic macrostructural level, two sets of unchartered diplomatic newsletters which representatives at foreign courts despatched back to their respective home countries. LÄS MER
5. Barcelona: La ciudad del bilingüismo : La utilización del castellano y catalán
Kandidat-uppsats, Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)Sammanfattning : First, this thesis aims to find, classify and explain the different reasons why the inhabitants of Barcelona use Catalan, Castilian or both languages according to a given situation. On the other hand, based on the results, it is intended to better understand the situation in Catalonia and the Catalans in a sociolinguistic field. LÄS MER
